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Shasta Lake Historical Society
Preserving local heritage through exhibits and education
Explore the rich stories and heritage of Shasta Lake through our rotating displays, historic photographs, archives, and community events. Join us in keeping history alive for generations to come!
Museum Murals
In the Boomtown Museum are 14ft. tall murals enhancing two of our walls. One wall depicts the Mammoth Mine located above the town of Kennett (which lies beneath Shasta Lake) and symbolic of the Copper Mining that encompassed the area before Shasta Dam was built. The other wall shows the dam workers arriving to work on building Shasta Dam.
Museum Displays
Platforms display antiques and vintage items including the "elephant" in the room, the original movie projector, resurrected out of the "Boomtown" Shasta Theatre ashes. Hands on, we have vintage typewriters and "view masters" for the young people and "the child at heart" to have fun.
Construction of the Pit River Bridge
VOLUNTEERS! - they make the world go around...
Shown are only a few of the ladies that worked and contributed to our fundraising booth last year: Charlotte Bailey, Darlene Brown, Melody Christenson, Sandy Estes, Mary Hale, Kay Kobe and Connie Strohmayer.
Holiday Bazaar Fundraiser
Each November, at the Larry Farr Community Center in the City of Shasta Lake, is an annual Community Holiday Bazaar hosted by non-profits and churches. Our historical society, once again, had a very successful candy booth in a building buzzing with the sound of laughter and fun as shoppers made their way around a room filled with homemade crafts, baskets, plants, baked goods and more. Our table had more than 25 different homemade candies to choose from and with our gift shop items, weraised over $2,000.00 for the museum.
This year the bazaar will be held on Saturday, November 21st from 8am-2pm. You want to shop there! Great prices! Great gifts!
Featured Book
BOTH books that we are sold out as of 4/2026 and to please contact us to reserve a copy. New publications are being ordered.
"Those Dam Kids". It is a great addition to any book collection. Almost 300 pages, it is full of photos and short stories by the offspring of the workers on Shasta Dam. Sharing their memories during the "Boomtown Years", it is a quick must read and sure to be a collectible book in years to come. Above is Mr. Mathew Rumboltz with some of "those Dam kids" and the first 7th & 8th grade students at Toyon School 1938.